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THE PRONOUN

(1. Personal Pronoun, 2. Reflexive Pronoun, 3. Emphatic Pronoun, 4. Demonstrativ


e Pronoun, 5. Relative Pronoun, 6. Interrogative Pronoun, 7. Indefinite Pronoun,
8. Distributive Pronoun)
Definition :
A pronoun is a word used instead of a common noun or a proper noun. The word pro
noun means for a noun and it called a noun s deputy.
"Pro" + "noun" typically means "in place, of, instead of" a noun or a noun phras
e. Pronouns, then, replace nouns (David met Joe; he [Joe] talked for an hour) an
d can also refer back to nouns (David is absent, because he is ill).

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